Experts' prediction: Rangers set to get maximum points from Ross County visit

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Competition: Scotland Premiership
Competition: Sun 22.August
Match begins: 14:00 (UTC)
Venue: Global Energy Stadium (6541 seats)

Rangers have come here for an intriguing battle against the hosts Ross County. Read up on the match with this thorough Premiership preview!

Rangers could be less fresh than the hosts in this fixture, as they played a Europa League game only three sleeps ago.

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Ross County form and stats

Ross County have played 1 Premiership games at their own stadium so far this season, resulting in 0-1-0 (wins-draws-losses).

Stress levels are on the rise for Ross County's attacking players as they have now played 204 minutes without scoring in a league game. M. Gardyne was their last goal scorer.

County faced defeat in their previous match, away at Hibernian (0-3). Regan Charles-Cook, defender, was given a rating of 6.8/10 in that game, top of the team. Charles-Cook hit one key pass and won 5 of 10 duels. The game against Hibernian was basically lost in the first half (0-3) and the second half was more of a formality.

Before that, County drew at home versus St. Johnstone.

No one expects the home team to get anything from this game. It's not often a home team are such massive outsiders as in this game. We've searched our database for matches where Ross County had similar winning odds as today, and found six games. In these, the hosts won one, drew zero and lost five. Betting people looking at handicaps might be interested to know that County lost four similar games by at least two goals.

Early season league goal statistics from Ross County's 1 home game: 0 goals, 0 conceded.

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Rangers form and stats

The story so far for the visiting team on their Premiership travels is 0 wins, 0 draws and 1 defeat.

Impressive finishing from Alfredo Morelos secured the home win 1-0 against Alashkert in their previous game.

Before that, Rangers secured a home win against Dunfermline Athletic with the score 5-0.

As mentioned earlier, Rangers will not be satisfied unless they get a comfortable victory in this game. Performing as huge favourites away from home has earlier resulted in 13 wins (ten by two or more goals winning margin), three draws and two surprising defeats.

Rangers have another game away from home in just four sleeps, a Europa League game versus Alashkert. A rough timetable for the guests!

As for goals scored and conceded in the league games away so far, Rangers has managed 0 goals and let in 1 from 1 match.

Head 2 Head

Head to head numbers (for the previous ten meetings): Ross County won zero games, one match ended with a draw and Rangers got nine wins. Over 2,5 goals / under 2,5 goals: six / four

Top Goalscorers

RangersI. Hagi
I. Hagi
1 goals
RangersS. Wright
S. Wright
1 goals
RangersK. Roofe
K. Roofe
1 goals

Ross County missing players

Rangers missing players

Ross County Rangers
Total Home vs mid Statistics Stat vs low Away Total
2 1 1 Played P 0 1 2
0 0 0 Won W 0 0 1
1 1 1 Drew D 0 0 0
1 0 0 Lost L 0 1 1
0 0 0 Scored S 0 0 3
3 0 0 Conceded C 0 1 1
50% 0% 0% Over 0.5 O 0.5 0% 100% 100%
50% 0% 0% Over 1.5 O 1.5 0% 0% 50%
50% 0% 0% Over 2.5 O 2.5 0% 0% 50%
0% 0% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 0% 0%
0% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 0% 0%
0% 0% 0% BTTS BTTS 0% 0% 0%
50% 100% 100% Clean Sheets C S 0% 0% 50%
100% 100% 100% Failed to Score F T 0% 100% 50%
 
2 0 0 Corners for (avg) C F 0 8 7.5
7.5 4 4 Corners against (avg) C A 0 5 3
3 4 4 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 0 1 0.5
0 0 0 Red cards R C 0 0 0
 
6.5 4 4 Shots (avg) S ( 0 15 16
0 0 0 Shots on Target (avg) S O 0 2 5
0% 0% 0% Goal Efficiency G E 0% 0% 30%
Ross County Last season Rangers
Total Home   Statistics Stat   Away Total
38 19   Played P   19 38
11 5   Won W   13 32
6 4   Drew D   6 6
21 10   Lost L   0 0
35 19   Scored S   35 92
66 35   Conceded C   9 13
97% 95%   Over 0.5 O 0.5   95% 97%
79% 84%   Over 1.5 O 1.5   74% 76%
50% 58%   Over 2.5 O 2.5   37% 50%
29% 32%   Over 3.5 O 3.5   16% 29%
11% 16%   Over 4.5 O 4.5   5% 13%
45% 53%   BTTS BTTS   42% 32%
18% 16%   Clean Sheets C S   58% 68%
39% 37%   Failed to Score F T   5% 3%
 
4.1 3.9   Corners for (avg) C F   5.6 6.5
6.5 6.3   Corners against (avg) C A   3.5 3.5
2.2 2.2   Yellow cards (avg) Y C   1.2 1
5 4   Red cards R C   0 0
 
9.1 9.3   Shots (avg) S (   14.3 14.9
2.7 3.2   Shots on Target (avg) S O   4.7 5.6
34% 31%   Goal Efficiency G E   39% 43%

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Hibernian 2 2 0 0 6 2 1 1 0 0 3 0 1 1 0 0 3 2 4 6
2 Aberdeen 2 2 0 0 4 1 1 1 0 0 2 0 1 1 0 0 2 1 3 6
3 Hearts 2 2 0 0 4 2 1 1 0 0 2 1 1 1 0 0 2 1 2 6
4 Celtic 2 1 0 1 7 2 1 1 0 0 6 0 1 0 0 1 1 2 5 3
5 Rangers 2 1 0 1 3 1 1 1 0 0 3 0 1 0 0 1 0 1 2 3
6 Dundee United 2 1 0 1 1 2 1 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 1 0 2 -1 3
7 St. Johnstone 2 0 2 0 1 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 2
8 Motherwell 2 0 1 1 3 4 1 0 0 1 2 3 1 0 1 0 1 1 -1 1
9 St. Mirren 2 0 1 1 3 4 1 0 0 1 1 2 1 0 1 0 2 2 -1 1
10 Ross County 2 0 1 1 0 3 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 3 -3 1
11 Dundee 2 0 1 1 2 8 1 0 1 0 2 2 1 0 0 1 0 6 -6 1
12 Livingston 2 0 0 2 1 5 1 0 0 1 1 2 1 0 0 1 0 3 -4 0

Read more about Premiership

The Scottish Premiership is the top division of football in Scotland, the Scottish Professional Football League. Twelve teams play 38 fixtures to top the league table in a season running from August to May. The teams first meet each other three times. Then the league splits in two for five more games.